Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PATERSON, NEW JERSEY is a place that inspires people. It inspired poets Allan Ginsberg and William Carlos Williams, it inspired Angelo Bresci, the anarchist who killed King Humbert I of Italy before World War I, and to the city's lasting pride, it inspired "Leaping" Sam Patch, the only man to leap Niagara Falls without a protective device...
...Tigers have gone winless in four games, losing three of them. But Harvard certainly cannot afford to take Princeton too lightly (there's an old sports cliche about looking ahead and not seeing what's coming up from behind) as the Tigers could salvage a good deal of pride with an upset victory...
...immediately launched into a proud recollection of his Harvard past, and I sensed that this was no ordinary man. A glint of pride was in his eye as he spoke of days gone...
Because the Radcliffe Collector's Discerning Eye exhibit could have accomplished so much toward this goal and it didn't, it is a source not of pride but of frustration and disappointment. The exhibit was created by and about Radcliffe women and yet it lacks a sense of its own identity or reason for being. It is surprising that a committee of 18 dedicated women working for nearly three years with a budget of $20,000 could finally produce a show in which the women whose interest in art is being celebrated remain so anonymous...
...contributors wished to remain anonymous. Another 19 listed themselves as Mr. and Mrs. or Mrs. and used the husband's name with the woman's maiden name underneath in parentheses, as if the two names belonged to different people. This is admittedly a small point and doubtless caution overcame pride for many of the collectors but nevertheless how we identify ourselves can be important in determining how we and others perceive...